Continuing my view of strategy vs. tactics using the lens of the Tour de France. I’ll need to skip stages 6 and 7 – my small houseguests were complaining about the hours of Tour de France coverage so I took a couple of days away from the TV to show them the city. Stages 6 …
At 113.5 KM, an eight-rider break is off the front by 2:57 with the peloton in hot pursuit. One reason for their determination is because the break includes Bossen-Haggen – how did they let him get in there? He’s only 16 seconds off the yellow jersey! – Phillipe Gilbert, and Thomas Voeckler. It’s Voeckler’s last …
Continue reading TDF Stage 5: Vittel to La Planche Des Belles Filles
First, a correction to yesterday’s blog. Nate actually managed to take the polka-dot jersey from his teammate yesterday. Today he dedicated it to the USA for the 4th of July. Nate talked about how his pursuit of the polka-dot jersey wasn’t a strategy – the tactic was to try to make a break if it …
This 132-mile stage bounces across Belgium and into France. In cycling, they categorize the difficulty of the hills or mountains that the riders must go over. The harder climbs have lower numbers: this stage has three category 4 climbs and finishes with a category 3 climb. But no rain on this stage, so the roads …
Continue reading TDF Stage 3: Verviers, Belgium to Longwy, France
126 miles (200 KM) from Dusseldorf, Germany to Liege, Belgium Stage 2 is a sprinter’s stage. The top contenders were Mark Cavendish (who is suffering from Epstein Barr and has no business riding a 21-day race), Marcel Kittel (a German and on a Belgian team), Peter Sagan, and Andre Greipel (another German). On this first …
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